English Script Request

Dave: She's a talented actress, starring in an eagerly anticipated new film, entitled "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part Two". Ha, ha, ha. Part two!

Paul: Yeah you know it!

Dave: Ah, it opens on Friday, ladies and gentlemen, here's the lovely Emma Watson, Emma come on out.

music...

Dave: Hi Emma, how are ya?

Emma: I'm very well, how are you?

Dave: Now, now (mumble) you know, OK.

laughter...

Dave: So you had the, you had the big London premier a couple of nights ago?

Emma: I did, yes...

Dave: Now how did that go?

Emma: It was all right, um, I, uh, I cried...

Dave: It was emotional

Emma: Um, but it, apart from that, no it, it went well, it went well

Dave: Yeah, but, now, now as I alluded to earlier, this is a segment of your life that is now uh finished, right?

Emma: Yes

Dave: And you started when you were nine?

Emma: I started when I was nine, and I am now twenty one and, uh yes. It's all over or it all ends..

Dave: no, no, no

Emma: (can't hear)

Dave; It was just a chapter and we move on to another chapter, and, and, do you look back on this period of your life and think, wow, what a childhood I had?

Emma, Um, yeah, I mean it was pretty remarkable in every way

Dave: Right

Emma: Um, I mean, one in a lifetime kind of experience, and uh

Dave: Any regrets about how you spent your, well, nine years old all the way I mean it's really, it's it's more than you've been alive almost, isn't it?

Emma: It, yes...

laughter...

Emma: I've actually spent more time being Hermione than I have, um being myself, so, it's pretty crazy...

Dave: But, but now, your parents helped you become an actress at that age? You wanted to become an actress? How did this happen?

Emma: Em, no none of the above, actually. I think my parents wanted me to be a dentist or a lawyer or something sensible like that, em, but, but no they came to my school. It wasn't a theatre school or anything..

Dave: Now when you say they, they the producers?

Emma: The people who were auditioning , I guess, kids. And er they saw me in my school gym and they took my photograph and they asked if I would come to London for an audition.
And.. But they..

Dave: Well now see you've got to be very careful about things like that. I mean, it's not funny but..

Emma: Well, thank.. Thank goodness there was nothing sinister about it, but no I mean basically, the, the whole thing just kind of happened to me. It was kind of amazing..

Dave: And it's your, it's your life now.

Emma: And now it's my life.

Dave: So, you don't know anything different.

Emma: Yes

Dave: Do you.. and you must have friends that are not in the Harry Potter movies (laughter) Do you look at their lives and you think: I wonder what it would have been like if I had had a life like that.

Emma: I think it would have been much more boring.

Dave: Yeah

Emma: I'm pretty happy with the way my life turned out

Dave: As well you should be

Dave: Can you imagine now, looking back on this segment of your life and saying, "I had a chance to be the Harry Potter girl, but I turned it down." Well that wouldn't work, would it?

Emma: No, that would have been awful! It would be absolutely awful. Um, I mean who's gonna be THE Harry Potter girl?

Dave: Exactly. The Harry Potter girl! Uh, so tonight is the premiere, here in New York City, right?

Emma: Yes.

Dave: Now, it'll be different than the London premiere, or are they about the same?

Emma: Um, it'll be different. It's always different because it's a different audience. Um, the London audience tends to be a bit more reserved, and uh...

Dave: Americans are dumb right?

Emma: No! No! They're a lot warmer! You know, the [British?] sort of, audience members will come up and say "Um, well, that was very good." and then you'll get the American audience, "That was awesome!"

Dave: Yeah.

Emma: "That was awesome!" And I'm like- [applause]- as much as I love being in the UK, that's the kind of response you want to get to your movie, right? And you get- And people whoop and-

Dave: "Awesome" meaning actually inspiring awe.

Emma: Yes!

Dave: Now I heard when you showed up at the theater people went crazy.

Emma: They, I mean, it was pretty crazy. I mean, there were, there were, I think sort of like 12,000 people who showed up um and no that's a serious number, I'm not even exaggerating that. It was crazy. It was crazy, crazy, crazy. Um. I think people identify with it. They feel like it was a part of their lives and their childhood, and they feel like that's over for them as well, so it's really emotional for them too. Um. I think? I try to, try to analyze it.

Dave: Sure

Emma: Understand-

Dave: Now how many films are we talking about here in the whole series?

Emma: Eight.

Dave: That's crazy, isn't it?

Emma: It is, isn't it?

Emma: Eight Harry Potter films.

Dave: I'm not a film historian but I would guess that has there ever been a series of eight films like that, I don't know, in the last hundred years? Jeez (short for Jesus) I don't know.

Emma: I don't know! I don't think so, not with the same cast

Dave: Like do you remember the Andy Hardy movies? You don't know what I'm talking about do you?

Emma: That was going over my head slightly

Dave: It was like er, Andy Hardy Falls in Love, Andy Hardy Goes to College, Andy Hardy needs a tissue. Crazy stuff!

Emma: I think Andy Hardy and the Philosophers Stone, and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Its very exciting, isn't it?

Dave: You could have been the Andy Hardy girl

Emma: Somehow Harry Potter has got a better ring to it

Dave: Now listen, seriously, now that you're done with the Harry Potter activities, tell me about your lessons, your schooling - how's that going?

Emma: It's going very well!

Dave: What year are you now?

Emma: Ah, I'm about to go into my third year.

Dave: Mmhmm, and where do you go to school, Oxford?

Emma: Um, I'm going to go to Oxford in October, for a year, to study, ah... abroad, it's meant to be, but obviously it's at home for me, so there's kind of an irony in that. Um, but ah - and then I'll do my third year back in the- my fourth year back in the States.

Dave: <Wh- what are you, what are you studying,> at Oxford, what are you studying there?

Emma: English

Dave: It's a huge party school, right, Oxford?

Emma: Oh, crazy, you don't even KNOW what these kids get up to, it's insane. Ah... Yeah, it's, it's gonna... I'm not sure I'm ready for it.

Dave: What, y- y-, but you, y- it's good though that you're doing that because I, I think that just makes you a, uh, uh, more admirable person.

Emma: Oh, thank you.

Dave: And and, uh, s- speaking of like your co-star Harry, uh, Potter.

Emma: Yes

Dave: There now, there are reports now, that he, uh, and it's a lot of pressure. Excuse me, was that something? Did you hear that?

Emma: I did. There was a buzz. There was a beep.

Dave: Was that my pacemaker?

Emma: {laughter}

Dave: I don't know. Somebody... Oh, I know. Somebody else is breaking in. Um, but did, he struggled and would often, uh, you know...

Emma: Would drink!

Dave: Yeah, did you know that? Can we talk about that?

Emma: To be honest, it's really not something that I, I genuinely know much about and you should, I mean he is the one to talk about it. But, as far as I know he never took a sick day, he was like the most professional, amazing...

Dave:Good for him

Emma: guy.

Dave: But,I mean, one can understand the pressure. Because it's not normal, first of all, show-business, there is nothing normal about show-business.

Emma: No. Nothing.

Dave: No, we're like monkeys on a rock. And secondly, for a kid, it's double the pressure. Now, do you drink at all, do you use controlled substances?

[Laughter]

Emma: Uhm, I mean, gosh, um, haha, noo...

Dave: I know the Brits... The Brits really... Have you ever had, like whisky or one of those distilled spirits, have you ever tried that?

Emma: Actually, I mean, yes, I have tried spirits, of course I've tried spirits. We drink at eighteen in the UK, but I'm actually legal to drink here now, as well, [unintelligible] I'm twenty-one.

[Laughter]

Dave: She's flaunting it!

Emma: But yeah, no um. Uh, this is so- I can't...

Dave: No, what were you going to say- What? Did it happen? Did you have a shot of something? And did- Look. Either you did and you liked it or you did and you didn't like it. What-

Emma: I mean- I mean- just, there are substances- I mean- whiskey-

[Laughter]

Emma: I'm dying here! Can-

Dave: No no

Emma: Can we move on?

Dave: Wait a minute. Yes.

Emma: I wanna talk about-

Dave: Let me help here. I- I- uh,

Emma: Ugh

Dave: Have you ever had anything to drink?

Emma: Have I ever had anything to drink?

[Laughter]

Emma: YES!

Dave: yes.

Emma: Yes, I have.

Dave: Ok.

Emma: I got very very drunk once in my life, as everyone does.

Dave: That's all- That's all I'm looking for!

Emma: Um, you know.

[Laughter]

Emma: That's all you wanted! Fine!

Dave: [unintelligible]

Emma: I got drunk! I have been drunk!

[Laughter, cheering]

Dave: Ever had to take a leak on the subway?

Emma: No. It's never- It's never gotten that bad. Uh. Thankfully it's never gotten that bad.

Dave: I'm sorry is it 'the underground' or 'the tube'?

Emma: It's 'the tube'.

Dave: 'The tube' yeah yeah.

Dave: You know, let's do now, Emma, let's take a look at a clip from 'gosh I hope this thing makes some money'.

[laughter]

Emma: Very nice.. nice.

Dave: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2. And, this is absolutely it for the Harry Potter movies.

Emma: Absolutely it.

Dave: So, we can assume- I will infer now, that everyone in the film dies.

[laughter]

Dave: Here it is, Emma Watson, Harry Potter and the de- de- Death-

Emma: Deathly Hallows Part2!

Dave: Take a look!

Emma: Great movie, you guys have got to see it!

[fake clip]

Dave: Ok, Deathly Hallows Part 2

[clip]

Dave: Whoa, you know what I'm saying! Thank you.

Emma: Thank you!